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LITERATURE AND LITEKAKY PROGRESS IN 1876. 



" The Boy-Emigrants." by Noah Brooks 

 (Scribner), gives young readers a vivid repre- 

 sentation of the hardships, perils, and varied 

 adventures, connected with the overland em- 

 igration to California in the days when there 

 was no railway to the Pacific. " Long-Look 

 House: a Book for Boys and Girls," by Ed- 

 ward Abbott, shows that the author has an 

 hereditary aptitude in writing for young read- 

 ers. " A Happy Summer," by S. Annie Frost 

 (American Tract Society), has the matter-of- 

 fact-ness of real life, with the interest of a 

 well-conceived fiction, and, with its fair page 

 and silhouette illustrations, may well " serve 

 for profit and delight." We cannot say any- 

 thing less, and could say nothing better, of the 

 book entitled " We Boys : Written by One of 

 Us, for the Amusement of Pas and Mas in Gen- 

 eral, and Aunt Lovisa in Particular " (Roberts), 

 than that it will not disappoint the expecta- 

 tions raised by its quaint and suggestive title. 



Three Girls. By Mrs. M. F. Butts. (Congrega- 

 tional Publication Society.) 



Things Common and Uncommon. By Mary Dwi- 

 nell Chellis. (Congregational Publication Society.) 



The Lost Found. By Agnes Giberne. (Lothrop.) 



Stories of Success. Edited by S. F. Smith. (Lo- 

 throp.) 



Frank Wilder; or, The Golden Eule. By Catha- 

 rine M. Trowbridge. (Congregational Publication 

 Society.) 



Little Jack's Four Lessons. By the Author of 

 " Sunday all the Week," etc. (Carters.) 



Little Eosy's Pets. By the Author of " Little 

 Bosy's Travels." (Congregational Publication So- 

 ciety.) 



Walter Neal's Example. By Eev. Theron Brown. 

 (D. Lothrop & Co.) 



School is Out. By D. C. Colesworthy. (Barry 

 & Colesworthy, Boston.) 



Sunny Days Abroad: or, The Old World Seen 

 with Young Eyes. (T. Whittaker.) 



The Acolyte ; or, A Christian Scholar. A Story 

 for Catholic Youth. (Cunningham, Philadelphia.) 



Almost a Woman. By S. Annie Frost. (Ameri- 

 can Tract Society.) 



Young Eick. By J. A. Eastman. Part 2. (D. 

 Lothrop & Co., Boston.) 



Four Girls at Chautauqua. By " Pansy." (D. 

 Lothrop & Co.) 



The Wentworths. By Susan Cooper Pindar. 

 (Lothrop.) 



The Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow. By Ella 

 Farman. (Lothrop. ) 



Three Girls of the Ee volution. By Lucy Ellen 

 Guernsey. (Sunday-School Union.) 



Washington and Soventy-six. By Lucy E. and 

 Clara F. Guernsey. (Sunday -School Union.) 



The Prattler. A Picture and Story Book for 

 Boys and Girls. By Uncle Herbert. (Lippincott.) 



All for the Best: or, The Old Peppermint-Man. 

 By T. S. Arthur. (Miller.) 



Bags and Tatters : A Story for Boys end Girls. 

 By Stella Austin. (Button.) 



Snowed Up; or, The Sportsman's Club in the 

 Mountains. By Harry Castlemon. (Porter & Coates, 

 Philadelphia.) 



What Tommy Did. By Emily Huntingdon Mil- 

 ler. (Griggs, Chicago. ) 



May St- "n v or>e and Her Friends. By Mrs. Mar- 

 garet E. Sanirster. (American Tract Society.) 



Under Shelter. By Annette Lucille Noble. 

 (American Tract Society.) 



Teddie and His Friends. By Emilie Forster. 

 (Dodd, Mead & Co.) 



Little Miss Fancy. By Teresa Oakey Hall. 

 (Dodd, Mead & Co.) 



Stories of Vinegar Hill. By the Author of " Ella 

 Montgomery's Book-Siielf," etc. 3 vols. (Car- 

 ters.) 



Amongst Machines, By the Author of " The 

 Young Mechanic." (Putnams.) 



Nelly Kinnaird's Kingdom. By Amanda M. 

 Douglas. (Lee & Shepard.) 



The Village School. By the Author of " Child- 

 Nature." And Other Poems, by Well-known Writ- 

 ers. A Book for Boys and Girls from Seven to 

 Seventy. (Lippincott.) 



Vine and Olive ; or, Young America in Spain and 

 Portugal. By Oliver Optic. [" Young America 

 Abroad" series.] (Lee & Shepard.) 



Shifting for Himself. By Horatio Alger, Jr. 

 [" Brave and Bold " series.] (Loring.) 



Frank Nelson in the Forecastle ; or. The Sports- 

 man's Club among the Whalers. By Harry Castle- 

 mon. [" Frank Nelson " series.] (Porter & Coates, 

 Philadelphia.) 



The Young Trail-Hunters ; or, The Wild Eiders 

 of the Plains. By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. 

 (Lee & Shepard.) 



Snip and Whip, and Some Other Boys. By Eliza- 

 beth A. Davis. (Lee & Shepard.) 



An Average Boy's Vacation. By Mary S. Deer- 

 ing. [" Forest City " series.] (Dresser, McLellan 

 & Co., Portland, Me.) 



Ocean Gardens and Palaces ; or, The Tent on the 

 Beach. By Eev. Sidney Dyer, Ph. D. (American 

 Baptist Publication Society.) 



Mrs. Kurd's Niece. By Ella Farman. (D. Lo- 

 throp & Co.) 



Eoddy's Ideal. By Helen Kendrick Johnson. 

 (Putnams.) 



Johannykin and the Goblins. By Charles G. Le- 

 land. (Miicmillan & Co.) 



Flaxie Frizzle. By Sophie May. (Lee & Shep- 

 ard.) 



Grandmamma's Letters from Japan. By Mrs. 

 Mary Pruyn. (J. H. Earle, Boston.) 



The Eandolphs. By " Pansy." (D. Lothrop & 

 Co., Boston.) 



The House with Spectacles. By Leora Bettison 

 Eobinspn. (Putnams.) 



A Trip to Music-Land. A Fairy Tale forming an 

 Allegorical and Pictorial Exposition of the Elements 

 of Music. By Emma L. Shedlock. (Lippincott.) 



Winwood Cliff; or, Oscar, the Sailor's Son. By 

 Daniel Wise, D. D. (Lee & Shepard.) 



The Children's Paradise. By Mrs. Catharine B. 

 Zerega. (Putnams.) 



Long Ago. A Year of Child-Life. By Ellis Gray. 

 (Lockwood, Brooks & Co.) 



Fleda and the Voice, with OtVer Stories. By Mary 

 A. Lathbury [" Aunt May."] (Nelson.& Phillips.) 



Classics from Babyland. By C. D. Bates. (Lo- 

 throp.) 



Janet and her Friends. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Torn and Mended. By W. M. F. Bound. (Lo- 

 throp.) 



The Mission of Black Eifle ; or, On the Trail. Bv 

 Elijah Kellogg. ["Forest Glen" series.] Lee <fe 

 Shepard.) 



Vanquished Victors ; or, Sketches of Distin- 

 guished Men who overcame the Obstacles in their 

 Way of Fame, but failed to gain that Self-Mastery 

 which is the greatest and grandest of all Conquests. 

 By Daniel Wise, D. D. (Nelson & Phillips.) 



TEXT-BOOKS. The demand for school-books 

 is not always proportioned to the actual needs 

 of the schools. But while there are ways 

 known to publishers for introducing, as it is 

 called, sets of books, the principle of the sur- 

 vival of the fittest cannot in the long-run be 

 evaded. One direction in which improvement 



